49% Of American Adults Have Either Type 2 Diabetes Or Pre-Diabetes But You Can Prevent This

I am very excited to have this panel and as you’ve seen all of these speakers speak in the last two days so we have Gabriel cousins Brenda Davis Anna Marie Clemente and Bryan Clemente so this is actually very unusual you’re looking at 200 you know virtually almost 200 years of raw food experience it’s you know a lot of experience 150 to 200 years so there’s a lot of knowledge here um and these are people that don’t have theoretical knowledge these are people that Gabriel at the Tree of Life and Brian Anna Marie Maria at Hippocrates have had guests coming to them for in the last 40 years so and Brenda does intense research so this is not theoretical it’s not just quoting someone else this is really hardcore what it takes to affect your health now the conference sort of has a funny title did the panel it’s called diabetes what are the best scientific and nutritional studies ever done tell us about how to prevent and reverse diabetes but you could take the word diabetes out and put all your other health issues in and the recommendations they’re making are similar you know they’re not saying this is the diabetes diet but the cancer heart disease Alice homers diets are totally different the stuff that they’re recommending will be very beneficial for all health issues so to get started um why don’t we just frame what’s going on I’d like if you would just say this there’s 320 million people in America the first question most people are gonna say is well does this affect me so if diabetes has nothing to do with them they might not be that interested so is does this have anything to do with anyone is this just some small group of people that have it or who actually has diabetes who’s gonna get diabetes that’s so who has it who’s gonna get it and then even if they do is it really so bad like it doesn’t you know type-2 diabetes it sounds like I don’t know so who does this affect us the people watching it do we need to be concerned how many people have it who’s gonna get it and what actually happens when you have type 2 diabetes because it so a lot of people doesn’t sound that bad so is my phone on could you hear me okay good well the data is pretty overwhelming okay 27 percent of the people of course 65 years and older have over type-2 diabetes that’s a lot right that’s more than 25 that’s more than a quarter of the population and the population is increasing in age I didn’t say get older I said increasing in age okay the sec the second thing is 10% of people 20 to 60 have diabetes type 2 diabetes so that’s important probably the biggest statistic is a 1/3 of the people from 20 to 60 years old are pre-diabetic generally speaking pa diabetes has many of the degenerative effects of people with full-on diabetes that’s not so good that’s a third of the population between 20 and 60 now the second part of that question is the bad news the chronic degenerative diabetes syndrome talking about is a serious degeneration in many of our organ systems our vision our brain function our neurological function our digestion and the tendency for depression exist there it goes on and on but the cardiovascular what two to four times higher rate of heart attacks so it’s pretty broad spread basically diabetes is accelerated aging so if you think that you don’t care about the fact that you’re aging that’s a big deal once you get diabetes but even the pre-diabetes in about 15 years all those kinds of things start to manifest including sexual function because you have decreased circulation to the sexual to the genital areas so it has a major impact on your physical function and I’m gonna say based on my observation a major impact on your mental function your cognition significant decreases so it’s a lose lose lose lose lose all the way down the line so it really affects people on every level and it takes about 15 years to get it so if you’re a 10 year old by the time you’re 25 your life is over functionally that’s what that means

oh no it is I think that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics just released their I think last year their position statement on diabetes and one of the one of the stats they included was that American adults now 49 to 52 percent of American adults have either type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and of course as dr. cousins was saying pre-diabetes says will turn into diabetes in fairly short order in most people so and I was just absolutely stunned when I saw that stat that we’re talking half the adult population frightening and we see that I don’t work of course all that every day we see that and you know you have something that’s totally curable diabetes type 2 absolutely totally curable I wish everything else could be told that you were totally curable so that is one thing if you have diabetes type 2 it’s absolutely curable but there are steps and we will talk about that today there are steps you need to take and it actually kills one American every three minutes it’s due to everything Gabriel said cardiovascular this that and you know then you have so you have diabetes type 1 you have diabetes type 2 you have gestational diabetes that a lot of women get while they’re pregnant and why does that happen suddenly it happens because we’re pregnant no because we eat junk and we don’t eat well when we pregnant that is a time that even more precious that we eat well and then you have diabetes type three which is actually called dementia Alzheimer because you make insulin in your brain in the hippocampus which is the learning and memory center and if that goes down the drain so does our memory and so there’s a lot of reasons to cure yourself from this and you will realize that what spikes insulin more than anything else is animal products so go vegan that’s the first thing you have to do you have to go vegan let me let me broaden this outside of America this is a international audience we don’t want to constantly say America this America that we’ve been great at exporting a lot of things out of this country over the years but what we exported is a lot of crappy food so this is not just an American phenomenon as a matter of fact we have more obese people in Mexico our neighbor than we do when I used to go to France 30 40 years ago I didn’t see chubby people and that 20% of their population is and diabetes is growing worldwide so I’d like to tell you that in the South Pacific where they’re pretty much on plant-based diets they’re not eating an awful lot of junk food like we are they’re eating a lot of palm oils and our forests are being knocked down for those palm palm oils but let me also explain what how serious this is in the context of how recently this has occurred when I peruse medical literature from the beginning of the 20th century it was not even mentioned tied to diabetes it was such a rarity and it was only with a fractional fractional part of the aristocracy that would contract this and they didn’t even know what it was at that point people would probably die or have a heart attack or have a kidney failure that go blind and they thought the spirits did it too so it was not even mentioned century ago to top it all off when I was at school they used to call it adults onset diabeetus it was pretty easy then it was wrong but it was easy they said if you’re 27 and below you have type 1 diabetes if you’re 27 and above you have type 2 diabetes so it was easy to be an authority then because we tell you’re 26 and 3/4 you have type 127 you have type 2 that’s wrong that’s really wrong as you heard Anna Maria say yesterday there’s direct research not clear research not one or two studies many studies that show gluten and celiac allergies contribute to type 1 diabetes and there’s a slew of other things and as Gabriel just mentioned in his presentation pesticides fungicides herbicides genetically modified food do this is a whole new experiment we have just tried in the last generation or two then to top the whole darn thing off it went from nothing a hundred years ago to being the fastest growing disease that we have to concern ourselves with today because it creates the most demise it’s the disease that kills you only second to heart attacks and strokes which often are caused by blood sugar conditions actually in 1920 only one case was reported one case 1920 that’s a hundred years ago just like what you said